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Re:AI agent startups at Y Combinator’s Spring ’25 Demo Day by keiferski on Saturday June 14, 2025 @02:53AM (#44274692)
What YC company would you consider innovative and groundbreaking - at the stage when they were small enough to be in YC?

Even the massive successes were still essentially novel takes on existing ideas, when they were in YC: Airbnb as Couchsurfing variant; Dropbox as file sharing service with a better UI; Stripe as PayPal but not terrible. Etc.

I wouldn’t really expect the average company at this stage to be groundbreaking.

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Re:AI agent startups at Y Combinator’s Spring ’25 Demo Day by nipponese on Saturday June 14, 2025 @07:56AM (#44275818)
Cloudflare.
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Re:AI agent startups at Y Combinator’s Spring ’25 Demo Day by keiferski on Saturday June 14, 2025 @08:07AM (#44275881)
Not a YC company…
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Re:AI agent startups at Y Combinator’s Spring ’25 Demo Day by brcmthrowaway on Saturday June 14, 2025 @06:57PM (#44279400)
Boom Aerospace
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Re:AI agent startups at Y Combinator’s Spring ’25 Demo Day by keiferski on Sunday June 15, 2025 @02:53AM (#44280965)
Good answer.
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